Barcode of UPC 715515015622

UPC 715515015622

Description : 71551501562 In his latest color masterpiece Kagemusha ("The Shadow Warrior"), director Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his celebrated career - the play between illusion and reality. Sumptuously reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic that is also a somber meditation on the nature of power. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Kagemusha for the first time in its full-length version. 2-Disc Set; Audio commentary by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince (The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa); A 40-minute documentary on the making of Kagemusha, part of the Toho Masterworks series Ak